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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (19484)	10/7/2003 5:32:24 PM
From: stockalot	Respond to of 42834

" I have a theory Brinker was about to quit over the David Korn summaries and ABC decided to allow Brinker to plug his web site since it was content only... so they were comfortable making the exception as the discussion forum was already shut down" It's a theory but the facts don't support it. Brinker posted as himself on AOL threads while he was working for ABC. Brinker plugged his website on his radio program long before the flap over David K. Look at Don Lane's posts. It is obvious that Bob Brinker would have been embarassed to have posted them as Bob Brinker. They were self serving, often false, terribly arrogant and showed Brinker to be not a very nice or trust worthy person. They also often pumped a stock that was his only buy in the late 90s. To ascribe his undercover posts to ABC policy is rather silly. He could never have posted such stuff under his name. He used the alias because he wanted to. Nothing more than that. He used it to bash critics, sell newsletters and change history on this thread. He used it to hype UTEK under that alias on another thread. None of those things could he have done under Bob Brinker. Look at a couple examples. Anyone really think Brinker used an alias because of an ABC handbook? To:PETE from STAMFORD, CT who wrote (3395) From: mister topes Sunday, Feb 15, 1998 10:50 PM View Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19484 Your comments are salient to say the least. Last year I counted the weekends I was forced to endure the likes of William, the Earl of Boredom, Flanagan and Neale, Did You Buy My Latest Book, Godfrey, and the Motley, Greater than all, Fools. It came to a grand total of nine weekends without The Brink's on air presence. Assuming his new contract includes nine or ten weekends off, I would say the odds of him being on vacation during a sell signal are very good to excellent. Wouldn't it be neat to see Brinker issue a sell signal while on vacation from radio, have his subscribers sellout at or near the top, and then see the market collapse with all the radio freeloaders left to fend for themselves when he returns only to tell them the horse is out of the barn and they are on their own! Would not surprise me in the least. Poetic justice! Message 3441188 Was Bob Brinker prevented from posting as Don Lane about UTEK as below because of ABC policy or because he wanted to be surriptious and have an effect on people drawn to the UTEK site by his touting of UTEK over the airwaves? I'm guessing he in no way wanted his real name mentioned in these posts and certainly wouldn't want ABC or anyone else to know he was saying these things under any name. To:Justa Werkenstiff who wrote (1800) From: mister topes Sunday, Dec 7, 1997 10:01 PM View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3546 My underground reliable sources who attended last week's big semi equipment party in Japan say the tone was decidedly negative. No doubt Mr. Art was caught up in the negativity and decided to go along. However, with 85% of UTEK's current backlog in the USA and Europe, one is hard pressed to imaging how the Asian problem is a front burner issue for this company. Furthermore, UTEK's future growth is dependent primarily on the success of the new Ultrabeam Division for photomask equipment and the revolutionary new P-Gild product which has unlimited potential. If UTEK ships its first E-Beam product in December as expected, and reports earnings reasonably in line with expectations in Jan., the stock has the potential to hold together before moving way up. Message 2902751 To:Dave Kahn who wrote (1807) From: mister topes Monday, Dec 8, 1997 11:31 PM View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3546 Some of the analysis regarding UTEK that appears on this thread is good. But at times their are glaring holes in the analysis that are big enough to drive a truck through. The biggest right now is the negative tone regarding E-Beam and P-Gild products during calendar year 1998. Although public discussion has suggested only three E-Beam machines plus 3 P-Gild machines are on the drawing board for shipment during 1998, it is obvious that if these products become hot items in the eyes of customers they could start flying out the door. And at the huge prices these advanced machines garner, we would be looking at earnings well above First Call consensus estimates of 1.38 next year. It would not be surprising to see UTEK ship many more than the planned total of 6 machines for the E-Beam and P-Gild product lines if things go well. And Asia will not matter because probably all of these would be sold in USA or Europe. It does not take a genius to figure the initial E-Beam and P-Gild machines have been sold in the USA. These machines have vast upside potential for sales and earnings and could act as a piledriver on future earnings at UTEK. With the initial E-beam machine going out the door this month, I would say Mr. Short may be in for a very difficult experience once the current short-term blahs in the group are played out. And if UTEK comes in with essentially in line Dec. quarterly earnings, Mr. Short may be calling 911 instead of his broker. Once investors shift their attention to E-Beam and P-Gild, which are now UTEK's bigtime future growth tools, Mr. Short may need a doctor instead of a broker. Whoever has decided to bet the ranch short on this stock in the mid-twenties may be begging for UTEK shares at higher prices in 1998. Message 2912787

To: Kirk © who wrote (19484)	10/8/2003 6:50:16 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Respond to of 42834

Brinker is a brilliant businessman and he might have used the Korn furror as a way to get the extra money from selling books and radio shows for all we know I don't know where this came from, "Brinker is a brilliant businessman"??? For what exactly? Selling a third rate investment newsletter? BJ Group? Talk show syndication? Negotiating with ABC? None of it impresses me much. He's good at being an opinionated talking head and he's had a couple of timing successes but beyond that I don't think he excels at much. Aside from that your theory seems plausible to me but it's all speculation. Maybe Brinker is silenced by his contractural obligations to ABC. Nonetheless, he has left a foul taste with many people because of the image he projects. Regardless of the reason, his PR has suffered severely and has left him with a serious credibility problem. I guess we could target some blame at ABC but then Brinker always had the option to leave if he felt his reputation was at risk. Along with the epic QQQ blunder he rode his reputation straight to the bottom. He chose to continue to profit from his ABC gig and subscriptions while trumpeting advice that he was ill-equiped to give and did harm to untold scores of people. Such contractural obligations only add weight to the argument that Brinker has to be considered simply an entertainer. If his communications are hampered by contract he cannot be an effective advisor to subscribers.